60 YEARS OF BOND PRODUCTION.
LICENCE TO KILL (1989)
had a wire. We were firing the rocket down the line, and as the truck went up on its side, it was my second-in- command’s cue to pull the wire tight. We’ve got this tanker coming towards us and he was screaming, ‘Fire it, Chris! Fire it!’ Eventually, I let it go, he dropped the wire and we got out the way, but it was a close thing!”
at one stage, and we weren’t too sure how much the stunt guy could do. As it happened, the driver was a master. They just used a little ramp and could drive on one side for miles. “There’s also a moment where a rocket goes underneath. That was a bizarre experience. I was standing there and one of my guys behind me
Dalton’s second and final movie saw Bond tackle the drug lord Franz Sanchez’s smuggling enterprise, wreaking havoc with his convoy of tankers carrying cocaine, at one stage driving a tanker on one set of wheels. “I spent eight months in Mexico, with four months near the border in Mexicali,” notes Corbould. “My job started with sourcing all the tankers and tractor units. We got nine or ten, with six or seven Kenworths, and had to make them all look the same. Then we got into the rig; one tanker goes along on its side
“This tanker was coming towards us and he was screaming, ‘Fire it, Chris! Fire it!’”
09. NOVEMBER 2022
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